Natural Beekeeping

Top Bar ApiRevolution has begun! Lets make some inexpensive Top Bar Hives and let them be pesticide free on their own natural comb! Che Guebee is a rebel bee fighting for the survival of the Biodiversity we all depend on and which is seriously endangered by deforestation and mono-crop agriculture! What kind of teaching have you got if you exclude nature?

Friday, August 8, 2014

Zinnia good bee plant

I have planted only a few Zinnia seeds this year and they have began to bloom recently. The bees seem to like them and will sure plant more next year. When you move to a new house there is lots of things to be done first and for that reason I didn't focus much on planting more for the bees but this will change next year.

As a matter of fact I will be planting various perennial plants this autumn which need cold stratification. Our farm is ment to be created as a Bee Sanctuary flowering from early Spring to late October.

Mono-crop agriculture is damaging our eco-system and bees indeed need all our help in form of planting lots of flowering plants, bushes and trees from them. This is not our end task but rather an action of conservation until we ban mono-crop agriculture and have an agriculture system based on local small-scale farming based on biodiversity and no pesticides and no tilling. Remember that all bee issues stem from the industrial mind! We need a paradigm shift, utter paradigm shift! Direct knowledge is the best tool toward awareness! To be aware humans must see it with their own eyes. Make sure they see it, but be gentle with the ignorant :) We were all ignorant at one stage and still are for certain aspects of life, death and the Universe :)

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What is Natural Beekeeping?

"Natural Beekeeping" is a concept, an idea which springs from a human mind and as such will differ from one person to another, from one culture to another, depending on our limited and conditioned perception about what it IS being a Honeybee. Since natural beekeeping is an idea and not the actuality it is not to be taken rigidly. Instead it is to be directly inspired by the Actuality. But let's avoid going too philosophical about it and let me simply describe how I see "natural beekeeping" benefiting honeybees (these are only guidelines not a dogma);

- bees overwinter on their own honey stores (feeding sugar syrup ONLY if absolutely necessary)

- lots of peace (low interference from the beekeepers part)

- treatment free (The only way to have a sustainable system of beekeeping is to stop treating, instead making splits from survivor colonies seems the most natural way to me)

- bees are allowed to raise as many Drones as needed (no drone culling)

- natural Queen selection resulting in the strongest Queen (no queen cell culling and only working with local Queens or my own)

- pesticide free bee zone and supporting organic farming (this is a global issue and must be dealt with locally first through environmental organisations and by buying and growing organic food/clothing, etc ...)

- expanding my apiary every year by making splits using Queen Cells from my own strong survivor colonies or catching local swarms. This is the best way to counteract winter losses.

- planting for the bees flowering trees, bushes and plants covering all seasons. Biodiversity is the best healer for the bees and all other creatures.